“Under the Constitution, the federal government is in responsible for securing our borders, preventing an external invasion, and protecting our national sovereignty.
To put this in perspective, in 1990 the number of illegals in Texas was 450,000. In 2000, it was 1.1 million; and in 2005 it was 1.4 million. Texas is not doing a very good job in stopping the flow of illegals into the state. It is costing the state taxpayers an estimated $4.7 billion annually just for education, healthcare, and incarceration costs.”
I’ll buy part of this but I would think you would agree that the Feds are “not doing a very good job “ of working in concert with Texas. Turn them over to ICE...ICE let’s them go or Border Patrol drives them to the border. No matter what the cost to Texas in taxpayer dollars, it is a cost that cannot be sustained by any state. It can’t be sustained by the nation. Look at the migration of illegals from Arizona into Colorado and other parts of the country when enforcement was threatened. They don’t go home. They scatter and go to other states. We visited Georgia last year and found an entire motel filled with them. Eight to ten in a room...with
the Mexican flag hanging on the door. There was work in that particular town. As thorough as you are, I’m sure you have the stats on how many Obama family illegals and others are draining our funds also. I don’t know if any of them moved to Texas, do you? Complete with social security cards? The costs in California must be astronomical. There may be a million illegals or more, not of Mexican heritage, in New York. I read about the fake marriage schemes allowing Muslim males to enter. I don’t know how to identify an illegal. They don’t wear t-shirts. In El Paso, volunteer organizations handle it. I don’t know who is handling the recent influx of them escaping slaughter from the cartels. I just don’t know who will sort it out. I do know that no one sneaks across the border to wait three years to pay in state tuition to our colleges. Houston, the nation has a problem.
When you reward something, you get more of it. When states like CA, Texas, MD, and other states that offer sanctuary and benefits to illegals, they will come to those states where the welcome banner is hanging out. AZ and AL have passed tough enforcement laws and it is having a measurable effect. The illegals are leaving. If more states pass tough laws, we will have attrition thru enforcement with the illegals self-deporting.